Chris here and I am back with the Teclast F seven-plus after using it now
for five days and I think we have found our new best gym no lake laptop it was
the Chuwi Lapbook SE which is really the same exact laptop as this one
however this one has capped and limited to only four gigabytes of RAM at the
time of this video at least there are plans I think for an 8 gigabyte version
but it just hasn't seen the light of day yet at least we have teclast now to the
rescue giving us that 8 2 gigabytes of RAM there are a couple of key
differences between these machines that you should know about so the let book SC
this one weighs about 1.4 to kilos and this is a 1.6 to so we're about 200
grams heavier this machine even though it is only slightly larger so this has a
14 inch 1080p non laminated screen on here so you can see a gap between the
glass on this and the IPS panel below or is this one thirteen point three inches
fully laminated screen a better quality panel but not quite as bright so the
maximum brightness of this one 250 lux this tops out about 200 so is that
screen worth that little gap on it between the glass to me a deal-breaker
well it came with a pre applied screen protector I've removed it now because
the head dust underneath it if you see my unboxing video it's more reflective
but it is brighter and the color gamut well it's not quite as good when you
have a look at the NTSC and the srgb and Adobe RGB color gamut the coverage
you're getting from this is not quite as good as this panel now this one has an
Adobe RGB of just over around 70% and here at 49 you can see yes that this is
a much better higher quality display apart from that I find for your general
kind of use the screen is fine it's good the better brightness there so the build
with these machines is very good we've got a really good keyboard on this so it
has about 1.5 millimeters of key travel good spacing backlit with two different
levels so when you turn it on it's not actually automatically coming on so
you've got to actually push function if I've turn it on my unit has a little bit
of an an even distribution of the backlight in some places which is a
minor annoyance there now I hope that there's just going to be on my unit here
because when you look at the Chuwi lapbook
SE's made by the same exact manufacturer it's the OEM that it
doesn't have that issue there so the touchpad very large very good it's
accurate and I've had no problems with it whatsoever the color of it is a
little different to the palm rest is some more of a grey matte primer small
been a dark kinda of silver as you can see this palm rest plastic that's the
only plastic really you get while apart from the keyboard itself and the
touchpad in the body that's used and the hens you can see goes back about that
far the hinge is stiffer than the Lapbook SE's which is good this one's ok
it's fine it's just a little looser that's all
compared to this one so they made it a little stiffer on this unit here down
the bottom we do have a upgradeable is his D so there's a hatch in there and
inside there you will find a 22 42 sized SSD with about 500 megabyte reads and
about 220 rights which are a little on the slow sides if you're not happy with
that can of course upgrade it you get about 100 gigabytes free on first boot
that and it is running Windows 10 so the build quality overall the middle on the
back the hinge and see the logo there - it's all good the bill checks out very
nice and it's just that weight being 1.6 a little heavier there so four ports two
USB 3 ports we do have HDMI which is 2.0 a that's up to 60 Hertz 4k which is
really good DC in for charging charge times it's just under 2 hours they're
really quick to charge that 38 watt hour battery we have a micro SD card reader
with maximum read speeds of about 28 megabytes per second read and write and
then the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack good sound sound quality out of this one
so no static, no hiss, no interference and reasonable elders to do like the
quality that's coming out of this same goes for the speakers so they are
located just up just below the hinge here actually like the lab book is he
from Chuwi but these ones they sound just a little bit louder and a tiny
little bit hint more bass
so marginally better speakers on this one which surprised me now when you take
a look at the performance of this system you're able to run quite a few tabs and
chrome because we've got double the RAM than the Lapbook SE that would have to
reload the page this one doesn't so you can see my testing here that I've got
about 15 or so tabs open without any problems whatsoever you can edit
spreadsheets Docs that's all going to run fine 4k video is well YouTube's 4k
streaming not a problem no dropped frames as you can see here from this
example and then HEVC this is a 10 bit file and it's encoded at 140 megabits
per second playing this back perfectly fine there as well to gaming performance
it's not it's strength here I kept the stock 6 watt TDP and I found that the
gaming performance was a little limited there from the GPU clock so a Counter
Strike global Offensive you can see 30 frames per second not amazing it's
playable at least on the lower settings League of Legends this is a lot lighter
and this one can run 1080p medium settings with a frame rate of about 50
frames per second which is not bad so if you want to tweak the performance you're
probably going to have to do a copper heatsink not on this increase that power
limit to about 10 watts or something because I did increase it to 9 watts
gaming performance drastically improved however temperatures as you can see
reached 93 degrees now if you don't do any mods you don't change the power
limit in the BIOS then expect thermals to get to about 80 degrees max gaming
which is perfectly fine so the thermals on this are really good now battery life
you can get about seven to eight hours I find on this on the lowest brightness
setting of the screen which is a little too bright it should be a little bit
dimmer than what it is that is just the way they have it configured so even on
the last brightness setting it still looks good indoors and that is fine and
you'll be able to squeeze about seven to eight hours on light work that is if you
do something demanding like gaming then about five maybe even four hours only
there so overall this is a really decent machine I feel it'll run Linux as well
no problems for Linux everything's working touch pay and all that Wireless
is working that is good it's really only got a couple of minor cons to me then on
to screen the extra weight but it does have slightly better speakers and a
slightly brighter screen but the most important of course that eight gigabytes
around that everyone has been after in HTML eight laptop finally we have it in
a quality machine thanks to Teclast here so this
does get the thumbs-up from me a great machine currently selling for about
three hundred and twenty nine us so a little on the expensive side I hope that
price does drop to more around the 300 mark in the future so if you haven't
seen my review of the Lapbook SE if you don't mind four gigabytes around and
that is definitely one to go for with a better screen that's right up here and
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